Colonel Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash
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E.B.C. Cash was born on July 1st, 1823 in
Wadesboro, NC, the only child of Boggan Cash and Elizabeth Ellerbe.
His father was a colonel in the NC Militia and his mother hailed
from the wealthiest family of Chesterfield District. Boggan died
when Cash was only two, and his mother returned to South Carolina to
raise her son. He attended the Mt. Zion Institute and South Carolina
College. After graduation, Cash studied law under Gen Blakeney of
Cheraw and passed the state bar soon after. He formed a short-lived
partnership with Alexander McIver; Esq. But young Cash was forced to
retire from law to run a rather large plantation that had belonged
to his mother's family. The Cash plantation grew a variety of crops,
including cotton, corn, rice, and wheat. Cash also took to raising
horses and cattle--assisted by several hundred slaves he would
eventually inherit. He took an active part in the local militia,
working his way up to the rank of colonel, in command of the 29th SC
Militia Regiment. In 1848, he married his second cousin, Miss Eunice
Ellerbe of Kershaw and fathered three children. Soon after, he was
elected to the General Assembly and promoted to the rank of
brigadier general. He was instrumental in getting the Cheraw &
Darlington Railroad built--which ran through most of his land--and
established a depot on his property.
When the clouds of war begin to form, Cash was
an outspoken proponent of secession. He attended the first ever
secession convention in Chesterfield in 1860 and promoted SC's
independence at every opportunity. After the state left in the Union
in December, he immediately began to recruit men for service in the
militia from all over the Pee Dee. By now a major general, Cash
became an ardent supporter of the new Confederacy. In March of 1861,
he was elected colonel of the 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry
in Marion. It did not take long for the men to discover what kind of
complex man Cash was. On one hand, he was described as a man of
strong character, fearless, charitable, intelligent, and a patriot
to the Cause. On the other, he was a strict disciplinarian, a
swearer, easily roused to anger and brash. He was aggressive and
overbearing, yet gentlemanly in most social settings. He did not
confess to any particular denomination of religion, nor did he
belong to any church. After returning to Florence from Charleston in
April, Cash once placed seven captains under arrest and confined
them to their tents because they refused to move their company cook
fires 150 yards from the tents--the distance Cash thought
"proper".
At First Manassas, Cash boldly rode up and
down the line of the Eighth as they advanced around Henry House Hill
and up Sudley Springs Road. He demonstrated how well he could handle
the regiment, when they became separated from the 2nd SC while
moving through dense wood. Not only did the regiment emerge in
proper formation, Cash also drove off one Federal unit and was
engaged with another while on the move to rejoin on the 2nd SC. When
ordered by Col. Kershaw, the senior South Carolinian on the field,
to clear the enemy in his front, Cash responded coolly: "We will
drive them to hell in five minutes." In the closing stages of the
battle, the 8th SC was in pursuit of the fleeing Yankees. Many
prisoners were taken, including several civilians caught behind the
lines. One of these was Congressman Alfred Ely of New York, who had
come out to picnic and watch the battle. Brought before Cash by Sgt.
Maj. W.S. Mullins, the congressman immediately demanded his release
(following that with several offending oaths, according to one
account). Cash, with his temper now ignited and a fire in his eyes,
looked down over his mount and responded: "You son-of-a-bitch!
You’re one of them politicians that started this damn war!" Spurring
his horse, Cash drew his pistol, intent on killing the Congressman.
Ely took refuge behind Mullins as Cash attempted to get a clear
shot. For a few moments, these two went round and round Mullins
until a staff officer intervened.
At the regiment's reorganization in the spring
of 1862, Cash was no longer the colonel. Some accounts say that Cash
was not reelected to that office, mainly because of his strict,
uncompromising style of command. Other sources say Cash resigned
over "a perceived injustice by the Confederate Government..."
probably because he was passed over for promotion. In any case, he
returned home determined to stay in service to his State. In
February 1863, he was elected colonel of the 2nd Regiment of State
Troops. A reserve unit comprised of mainly men too old or too feeble
for active duty. This unit remained in existence for a year until
the Reserve Battalions were formed. Cash, however, could only
maintain his generalship in the State Militia. One of the many
services Cash gave during the war was charity to the soldier's
families. It was estimated he gave away some 50,000 bushels of corn
to the needy dependents of the area. He also supplied the
Confederate government with corn, grain, and beef throughout the
war, charging them antebellum prices despite the high inflation.
When Sherman ravaged the state, Cash was there organizing the
militia, running vital communications throughout the area, and
helping civilians hide themselves and their valuables. Cash himself
refused to leave his home, and hid in the swamps of the Pee Dee
River to avoid capture. The Slave Narratives recall that Cash killed
at least one of his slaves for disclosing a stockpile of corn to the
Federals.
After the war, he returned to farming and
raising stock. He continued to show compassion for the Confederates
returning home by canceling all debts owed to him. He was also a
vocal antagonist of the Reconstruction governments and politicians
and lawyers often sought after his advice. Cash even ran against
Gen. Wade Hampton in the 1876 race for governor. He thought of
Hampton as too reconciliatory to represent the white population of
the state. Col. Cash is most remembered by his duel with Col.
William Shannon of Camden on July 5th, 1880. Shannon and his law
partner had accused Cash's wife of fraud in the settlement of a levy
against her brother in Kershaw County. Cash naturally took this as
an affront and the case went to court. After several months (and a
lot of mud slinging on both sides), the state Supreme Court ruled in
Cash's favor. Shannon was not satisfied and ultimately challenged
Cash to a duel. The two sides met at Lynches River, between
present-day Bishopville and Lydia, and fought the last duel in South
Carolina. Shannon was killed. Soon, the state legislature made
dueling illegal.
Cash died on March 10th, 1888 and is buried in
the family cemetery in the Cash community (between Society Hill and
Cheraw on present day U.S. Highway 52).
Matheson, Kenneth Gordon,
A.M., L.L. D.
President of the Georgia School of
Technology, Atlanta, was born at Cheraw, S.C., July 28, 1864, a son
of John F. and Mary E. Matheson, the former a native of Lochalsh,
Scotland, and the latter born at Cheraw on Nov. 7, 1832. His
great-great-grandfather, Capt. William DeWitt and James Chapman, and
four sons of the latter, James, Jr., John, William and Allan, were
soldiers in the American army in the Revolutionary war. William and
John were killed at Camden, S.C., being regulars under Dekalb, and
Allan, though very young, served as a trooper during the war. Martin
DeWitt, a great-great-great-grandfather, although a very old man,
also served in the war for independence. Allan Chapman married
Eleanor, daughter of Capt. William DeWitt, and this couple were the
great-grandparents of Doctor Matheson. Captain DeWitt was so active
in his devotion to the cause of liberty that his house was burned by
Tories, and it is related that one occasion, while he was in the
army, his wife and son, John DeWitt, then a boy of sixteen years of
age, were accosted at their home by a party of British. When the boy
resented some insolent remark addressed to his mother he was struck
on the head with a sword by an officer, inflicting a scar that he
carried to his grave. Capt. William DeWitt became a man of
prominence after the war and was elected high sheriff of the
Cheraws. In 1782, when a treaty was signed, Governor Rutledge issued
writs of election to General Marion, and Captain DeWitt was elected
representative. Two years later he was elected senator. To accept
these positions he had to resign the office of high sheriff, in
which he was succeeded by Allan Chapman. Captain DeWitt married Mary
Devonald, a woman of great beauty, whose father, Daniel Devonald,
had an original grant of land and was a wealthy planter. Another
maternal ancestor of Doctor Matheson was Dr. Thomas Graham, a member
of the well known Graham family of Virginia and North Carolina. The
original American representative of this family was an officer in
the battle of Flodden Field in 1746, and came to this country soon
afterward. The descendants of the Graham, DeWitt and Chapman
families have occupied many positions of prominence in the Carolinas
and Alabama. John F. Matheson, the father of the subject of this
sketch, was a prominent banker, and an influential and much beloved
citizen of Cheraw, where he continued to reside until his death in
1878. Doctor Matheson received his early education in the Cheraw
academy, after which he entered the South Carolina military academy
at Charleston, an institution locally known as the "Citadel," where
for three years he was battalion adjutant. During this time he
formed the acquaintance of Capt. Lyman Hall, recently graduated at
West Point, and then adjutant of the military post at Charleston.
Between the two grew up a friendship that remained unbroken until
the death of Captain Hall on Aug. 16, 1905, being at that time
president of the Georgia School of Technology. After leaving the
"Citadel" Doctor Matheson was for three years commandant of cadets
in the Georgia military college at Milledgeville, and for the
succeeding two years held the position of assistant professor of
English in the University of Tennessee. This place he resigned to
accept that of commandant and professor of English in the Missouri
military college at Mexico, Mo., the first genuine military school
west of the Mississippi. He was offered the position of assistant
superintendent of this school, but declined to enter Leland Stanford
university, where he took a post-graduate course and was granted the
degree of Master of Arts in 1897. The same year he came to Atlanta
as assistant professor of English in the school of which he is now
the executive head. Three months later he was raised to the full
professorship. Since coming to Atlanta he has done effective post
graduate work in the University of Chicago and Columbia university,
of New York. In the latter institution he completed all the
residential requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
After the death of Captain Hall the trustees of the technological
school voted to retain Doctor Matheson as chairman of the faculty
for an indefinite period, and on June 21, 1906, he was unanimously
elected to the presidency of the institution. Just the day before
this election he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the
Washington and Lee university. Doctor Matheson is a Democrat in his
political convictions and in religious matters he holds to the faith
of the Presbyterian denomination, being now an elder in the North
avenue Presbyterian church, (Southern) of Atlanta. On Dec. 27, 1898,
he was united in marriage to Miss Belle Seddon Fleet, daughter of
Alexander Frederick and Belle (Seddon) Fleet, of Virginia, and they
have three children: Belle Seddon, Kenneth Gordon and Frederick
Graham, aged respectively six, four and one and a half years. (1906)
Col A.F. Fleet is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and
during the Civil war was adjutant of General Wise's brigade. He is
now superintendent of the Culver, Ind., military academy, a son,
John S. Fleet, being assistant superintendent of the same school.
Another son, Henry W., is a lieutenant in the regular army of the
United States, and W.A. Fleet, is a Cecil Rhodes student at Oxford,
England. Mrs. Matheson's mother is a niece of John Seddon, former
secretary of war of the Confederate States. Doctor Matheson is a
member of the Kappa Alpha college fraternity and the Auxilium club,
of Atlanta.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ.
1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)
Judge M. J. Hough
Judge M. J. Hough, of the Chesterfield bar,
has for fifteen or more consecutive years administered the office of
probate judge with a singular degree of fairness, patience and the
knowledge of law and human nature required for his delicate and
exacting duties.
Judge Hough was born in Chesterfield February
10, 1873. The Hough family came from England and has been in South
Carolina since the period of the Revolutionary war. His grandfather,
William Hough, was a native of Chesterfield County and was a planter
and before the war represented his county in the Legislature. M. J.
Hough, Sr., served as a captain in the Confederate army under
General Butler, after the war became a prominent member of the
Lancaster bar, and served as solicitor of the Sixth Circuit at the
time of his death. He married Ada Clifton, a native of Chester
County and a daughter of Jesse A. Clifton, who was of Irish
ancestry.
Judge M. J. Hough was fourth in a family of
ten children. He spent his early life at Lancaster, attended common
schools and took his law course in South Carolina College. He was
admitted to the bar in 1899, and in the same year began practice in
Chesterfield. He was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the
Legislature in 1901, and in 1903 was called by popular election to
the office of probate judge. Since his first campaign he has had no
opposition for this office.
February 11, 1903, Judge Hough married Pearl
Evans, daughter of Maj. W. A. Evans. They have four children, Leo
Evans, William, Minor and Agnes. Judge Hough is a member of the
Baptist Church.
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Inglis Parks Mangum
A striking illustration of what perseverance,
integrity, and faithful discharge of duty will accomplish, when
combined with a high sense of moral responsibility, is found in the
career of Inglis Parks Mangum, who has been before the citizens of
Chesterfield County as the incumbent of public office since 1896,
and who since 1912 has been clerk of the courts. During this long
period he has exhibited qualities of faithfulness and
conscientiousness, which with his recognized ability, have served to
place him high in the confidence of the people.
Mr. Mangum was born in Chesterfield County,
South Carolina, April 20, 1869, a son of Gibson D. Mangum, a native
of the same county. The father was but sixteen years of age when he
ran away from home and managed to enlist in the Confederate army,
subsequently serving three years as a private during the
war-between-the-states. For many years he was engaged in
agricultural pursuits and became a well-to-do and highly respected
citizen of his county, where his death occurred at the age of
seventy-one years. His widow, who survives him at the age of
seventy-five years, and is in the best of health and spirits, bore
the maiden name of Elizabeth Rigg, and is a native of this county.
Of their eleven children, ten grew to maturity, and eight are living
in 1919.
The second in order of birth of his parents'
children, Inglis Parks Mangum attended the common schools, after
leaving which his education was self-secured. As a youth he began
teaching in the public schools, and while so engaged became
interested in civic affairs, gradually becoming a decided influence
in local politics. He was but twenty-seven years of age when, in
1896, he was elected county treasurer of Chesterfield County, and so
efficient and satisfactory were his services as the incumbent of
that high position that he was retained therein for ten years,
longer than the incumbency of any other man who has ever held the
office. During his term of office he did much to place the finances
of the county upon a sound basis and his industry and wise
management resulted in the inauguration of a number of
greatly-needed reforms. For the following six years he applied
himself to farming on his large plantation, but in 1912 he was again
called to public office, this time as clerk of the courts. In 1916
he was again chosen for a term of four years and at present is
devoting his entire time and energies to his official duties, having
recently disposed of his plantation, although he still owns a small
and valuable property. Mr. Mangum is a public official whose work
has been constructive and useful and whose record bears no stain or
blemish.
As a fraternalist he belongs to the local
lodges of the Masons and Knights of Pythias. For thirty-three years
he has been a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
the work of which he takes an active and helpful interest, and
educational matters have also had the benefit of his co-operation
and support, as have all worthy charities.
Mr. Mangum was married April 17, 1901, to
Sarah Ella Funderbark, and they are the parents of four daughters
and three sons: Mary Inglis, Atha Thomas, Sarah Reece, Alma
Elizabeth, Thomas Gibson, Inglis Parks, Jr., and Ben
Welsh.
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W. J. Perry M.D.
In adding the name of Dr. W. J. Perry to its
citizenship in 1905, Chesterfield was to profit by the services of a
man who possessed both the ambition and ability to make himself a
factor of professional usefulness. Not only has he become one of the
leading physicians and surgeons of Chesterfield County, but has also
been prominently identified with banking, planting and real estate
interests, and at the same time has rendered valuable services to
his community in movements for the general welfare. He is a native
of Union County, North Carolina, and was born near Wingate, October
5, 1877, fifth in the family of nine children of William Marion
Perry and Martha E. (Moore) Perry.
Doctor Perry is a member of an old and honored
American family and comes of good fighting stock. His
great-great-grandfather was Jeremiah Perry, who met the death of a
patriotic soldier of the Continental line during the War of the
Revolution, and his great-great-great-grandfather was Paul Perry.
His great-grandfather, the honored William Perry, volunteered as a
soldier during the Mexican war, and raised a company, not seeing
active service on account of the termination of the war. He rose to
the rank of captain, and the sword that he used is still one of the
family's most cherished possessions. The sword was taken from the
body of Jeremiah and presented to the doctor by his grandmother.
Jeremiah Perry, the grandfather of Doctor Perry, was a native of
Union County, North Carolina, and there was also born William Marion
Perry, father of Dr. W. J. who enlisted in the Confederate army when
but seventeen years of age and fought through the War between the
States as a private, achieving an enviable record for gallant and
faithful performance of duty. At the close of his military service
be returned to his native locality, where during the remainder of
his life he engaged in farming. He was one of the progressive
agriculturists of his day and operated his land with the latest
improved machinery and the most highly approved modern methods. His
wife, Martha E. Moore, was born in the same county, a daughter of
Samuel R. Moore, also of that county, and a granddaughter of Moses
Moore.
After completing his primary educational
training in the public schools of Union County, W. J. Perry, who had
no intention of following an agricultural career, took up his
professional studies in the Atlanta College of Physicians and
Surgeons, from which noted institution he was graduated with the
class of 1900, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. His first
location was in Toxahaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina, where he
remained until 1905, in November of which year he established
himself in practice at Chesterfield. Since then a gratifying
patronage has grown up around him, and a large following has
responded to his practical demonstration of skill and resource. A
rare quality among professional men, he has also shrewd financial
sagacity, and is one of the wealthiest men in Chesterfield County,
holding large interests in real estate and bank stock, as well as
being the owner of a plantation of 900 acres, in two tracts which is
farmed on shares. He is rated as one of the well-informed citizens
of the community, taking an interest in politics and allying himself
with movements making for progress and advancement along all lines
of activity. In addition to belonging to the various organizations
of his profession, he holds membership in the Masonic fraternity. He
has a tactful and sympathetic manner, and a personality which
inspires confidence in his good will and ability.
In 1898 Doctor Perry was married to Martha
Griffin, who died without issue. His second marriage
occurred in 1907, when he was united with Essie Burns Buchanan, and
they have three sons: William Louis, Percival and Jerry
Buchanan.
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Jesse Clifton Rivers
Jesse Clifton Rivers is the present state
warehouse commissioner of South Carolina, being the unanimous choice
of the Legislature for that office, and beginning his Service on
March 1, 1920. He resigned his seat in the Legislature, where he had
sat for six continuous years representing Chesterfield County, where
Mr. Rivers has long been identified with farming and business
affairs.
He was born in Chesterfield County at Mount
Croghan, January 29, 1876. The Rivers family is one of the oldest in
South Carolina. It was founded by three brothers, John B., William
and Thomas, who came from England about 1750 and settled near what
is now the city of Charleston. They owned large estates on the
islands and were planters and slave owners. The head of this
particular branch of the family was John B. Rivers. His son,
Frederick Rivers, was a patriotic soldier, and many of his
descendants have participated in the various wars of the country.
Frederick Rivers was with Marion and his men, and was granted land
in Chesterfield County for his services in the Revolution. These
lands were in Chesterfield County, where the Rivers family were
original settlers about 1785. Isaac Rivers, a son of Frederick
Rivers, served with Jackson in the War of 1812, and was in the final
battle of that war at New Orleans when the British were defeated.
Frederick Rivers, a son of Isaac, was also a soldier, being a member
of the Palmetto Regiment in South Carolina in the Mexican
war.
The father of the state, warehouse
commissioner was Philip Rivers, who with five brothers, left home on
the same day to enter the Confederate army, and only three returned
when the war was over. They were all members of Company B, in the
Twenty-sixth South Carolina Regiment. Philip Rivers married Haley
Massey, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The Massey family settled in
Lancaster County near Waxhaw in the seventeenth century.
Jesse Clifton Rivers completed his high school
course at Chesterfield and under a private tutor," John Davis,
prepared for college. He entered Wofford College as a member of the
class of 1894, but owing to sickness and misfortune in the family
was unable to complete his course. His early experiences were
farming near Mount Croghan in Chesterfield County, and in all
subsequent years he has been interested in agriculture. He left the
farm and in 1910 organized and managed a mercantile business at
Mount Croghan, and was actively identified with that enterprise
until 1915.
Mr. Rivers has been an important figure in the
public life of Chesterfield County for many years. He served
continuously by election from his home people, as magistrate from
1900 to 1914, seven consecutive terms. In 1914 he was chosen a
member of the Legislature and was elected three times from
Chesterfield County, serving six years.
The Legislature chose him warehouse
commissioner on February 19, 1920, for a term of two years. Mr.
Rivers is what is known as a Ben Tillman democrat, and is affiliated
with the reform wing of the party in South Carolina.
He is a prominent member of the Masonic and
Woodmen of the World orders. He has been worshipful master for ten
years, serving Mount Croghan Lodge five years, and for the past five
years has been master of Ruby Lodge. He was for fifteen years clerk
of Mount Croghan Camp of the Woodmen, and is now consul commander of
that camp. His church is the Methodist Episcopal and he is
superintendent of the Sunday school at Mount Croghan.
October 21, 1895, Mr. Rivers married Miss Lou
Gulledge. On September 1, 1901, he married Miss Mary Allen. His two
children by his first marriage are Ruth W., now the widow of W. A.
Simpson, and John L. Rivers. There are nine children by his second
marriage, namely: Louis P., Leroy S., W. Howard, T. Duncan, George
K., Bessie, Blanch, Lucy and Jessie.
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